We have two amazing readings for Mass today! The gospel speaks of voluntarily not only accepting but also seeking the custom made cross that awaits us in life! It is the only means to salvation. It cannot be avoided if we wish to end up where we truly want to be – safe at last one day in the Father's kingdom.
Part of the cross – that apparently from the first reading – has been around for a very long time – is the inability of men and women to communicate successfully with one another: the Babel-syndrome! And again apparently this is God's doing: he knew that when we all "spoke the same language and understood each other well" – we misused this communication gift and sought our own glory – we sought to make our own tower to heaven – thus bypassing a need for God, his help and his forgiveness.
Perhaps it would be a good starting point these days to understand that in this life there will always be a communications rift – and that this is part of the cross that we all must bear. But we must also understand that there are a great many who still want to set themselves up as gods, seeing themselves as the architects of their own salvation both materially and spiritually; and there are also those who know the difference, those who understand the conflict and bear it patiently as a cross – those like Jesus, who compassionately and loving deal with those who are clearly off-target and try to draw them back by simple, direct, positive and compelling presentation of truth: the truth that is Jesus: the truth of his Gospel, the truth of his Life, the truth of his Ways! And Jesus and he alone can empower any he wishes to understand clearly and concisely what it is that he is saying! Jesus is greater than the Babel-syndrome!
Jesus will reveal to us all of the very mysteries of God – as we carry our crosses daily – so that we can know that we are his friends: he came to redeem us so that we can truly be his Divine Friends once again – experiencing the depths of what that relationship means! The language of Friendship, the language of love, the language of salvation is clear: SELF-SACRIFICIAL GIVING – even to the point of death!
Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own!
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